mutoscope
Noun
Meaning
mutoscope (plural mutoscopes)
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A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
Synonyms
kinetoscope
zoetrope
phenakistoscope
film projector
magic lantern
praxinoscope
zoopraxiscope
stroboscope
thaumatrope
Examples
American Mutoscope and Biograph was the first known company to use this for the Jeffries Sharkey fight on November 3, 1899.
He had contacts with Leon Gaumont and the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. In 1898 he also became a shareholder of the Biograph and Mutoscope Company for France.